The ship moved slowly, and three 50-ton clippers sailed out of the harbor first, followed by two 20-ton shuttle-type fast boats. After the five ships of Zhao Xing left the port, the utility ships issued by the people rushed to leave the port and began to form near the official ships.

Then it was the turn of the ships of the merchants of various countries.

This voyage was an attempt by Zhao Xing, who had been muttering in Wang Zishao's ear about the benefits of armed escort, and Wang Zishao was annoyed by his muttering, so he decided to support the escort operation in a limited way to see how effective it was. Therefore, he instigated the merchants to ask for escort...... Zhizhou cares about the shipping safety of merchants, what else can the businessman say, but he accepted Zhizhou's kindness with tears.

There is no shortage of people who can sail near the shore, but there is a shortage of navigators who can discern the direction in the open sea, because identifying the route requires astrology, which is a high-tech science. But if there are people leading the voyage every time, then Mizhou is a person who can sail to sea, and the transaction volume of the city shipping company will increase greatly, which is very beneficial to Mizhou, so Wang Zishao specially came to say goodbye and was full of expectations for the results of this voyage.

After the ship left the port, it began to form a formation not far from the port, Zhao Xing's ships lined up, observing the caravan from a distance, the Jurchen jumped over and asked tightly: "General, why don't you scatter your ships and lead a fleet of ships to sail each?" ”

Zhao Xing smiled and asked, "What is Your Excellency's name?" What do you call it? ”

The Jurchens replied: "My name is Brother Jia Wenmeng, but what does my name have to do with the fleet formation?" ”

Zhao Xing then asked, "What's your brother's name?" ”

"My Aka's name is Jia Wen Qingchen, but what does my Aka's name have to do with the fleet formation?"

Zhao Xing suddenly realized, and then replied: "The names of these two people have nothing to do with the fleet formation. ”

"I ask you why you don't send ships to lead the way. I'm asking you—ah, I'm asking you? Why ......"

Zhang Yongcai felt uncomfortable when he got on the boat, and he wanted to vomit, but the Jurchens were shouting there, and he was dizzy and holding on to the mast to calm the churning in his heart. Deng Yufu is better. He stepped to persuade him, but Yuan Yeping suddenly stretched out his foot and stepped on the surface of his foot. Then shake his head slightly.

The Jurchens were furious: "Why don't you answer me? You don't treat me as a friend! ”

Zhao Xing nodded and said sincerely: "I really don't treat you as a friend - friends have a friendship of wealth, but you won't give me your property, and neither will I." So, for me, you and I can only be trading partners. I only talk about price when I trade with people, and I don't like to ask questions. So. You are not a qualified trading partner. ”

The Jurchen muttered aggrievedly: "But I treat you as an Acre ......"

"Acre" is not a Jurchen word. It is a Khitan dialect that means "elder brother".

Zhao Xing was not moved by the sincerity of the other party at all, he put on a straight face and said on the matter: "You can't do trade; Neither can you fight a naval battle; You don't understand the formation of the fleet, so don't come and point fingers at me. You should always know that the clenched fist is powerful to hit people, and the fingers that are split are shrew scratches. My fleet is all together. This is a regular naval battle formation - you ask this, military secrets are already involved. You shouldn't ask! ”

Brother Jia Wen Meng stared at the cow's eyes and gasped, Zhao Xing turned his back to him, ignoring the other party's anger at all, and just used a delicate telescope in his hand to observe the situation of the fleet. Yuan Yeping looked at the Jurchen young man, and his emotions were wrong. He gently removed the clogs and nailed them neatly to one side. He stood barefoot at arm's length from the Jurchen and pressed the handle of the knife with his hand.

In this position, Yuan Yeping is confident that he can quickly make a knife before the opponent draws the knife and swing the opponent in one or two sections.

There was silence on the ship, except for the Jurchen, who was snorting and gasping; Only Zhao Xing was left issuing a series of orders to direct the fleet forward; Only the sailors were left to answer the answer......

After the fleet spontaneously formed several small groups, Zhao Xing ordered the fleet to move forward, and after the entire huge fleet began to move forward, Zhao Xing put away the binoculars, turned around, and looked at Brother Jia Wen Meng, who was still snorting and panting, in surprise, and asked curiously: "What's the matter, you haven't left yet?" You've been blowing for half of the weather, and you must know: I'm big, and your little lung capacity can't away. What are you doing here? ”

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he smiled apologetically. He said that the other party couldn't understand the local language, but he knew that it was not a good word, the man took a long breath, and said in a loud voice like a quarrel: "I never attack people from behind, you turned your back to me just now, so I don't beat you, and now that you have turned around, I want to compete with you." ”

The Jurchens never attack people from behind - come on, no one can coax Zhao Xing. He shook his head at Brother Wen Meng, and said lightly: "I don't fight with you, the boat is full of my people, I beat you, and your brother will say that I bullied you, and I have a habit: once I shoot, I will never show mercy." ”

Brother Jia Wen shouted: "Let's go to the shore to fight." ”

Zhao Xingdi smiled very kindly, and he said gently: "Bet? ”

Seeing that the other party didn't understand, he immediately added: "I have thousands of people a day, and I spend time fighting with you?!" If it's not profitable, I'll not do it. ”

Is this still a Great Song official?

Brother Jia Wen Meng was stunned, as far as he knew, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were all benevolent gentlemen, and they were afraid that others would suffer losses when trading, even if you took a rotten iron nail and said that it was a national treasure of your country, the reward of the other party could also let you buy a boat, how could he meet such a tricky and eccentric official who refused to suffer losses everywhere.

"I'll bet you half a cargo!"

"You can't afford to gamble! As far as I know, there is a great drought in your country this year, and your ships are full of food, and if you lose half a boat, half of your people will starve to death. So you can't afford to bet. I'm also worried that if you lose, you'll cry and go to Dengzhou and tell the local officials that I'm bullying you. I don't do this kind of thing that has losses and no profits. ”

"Coward! Coward! Driven! Under the head! ……”

"Drive" and "head" are both the names of the Khitan people for the captive Han slaves, and the Jurchens at this time had a poor vocabulary and could not think of any cursing words. Therefore, he used the title of "Han Nu" to insult Zhao with the Khitan people

Zhao Xing didn't seem to hear it, and commanded the sailors to carry Zhang Yong into the cabin, his face calm. But Yuan Yeping, who was observing him carefully, found that the green tendons on Zhao Xing's forehead were jumping. At this time, no one on the ship came to persuade them, and they looked at Brother Jia Wen Meng with strange eyes, which were not so much angry. It's better to talk about pity, they are all looking at Brother Jia Wen Meng with pity with the eyes of the dead. Some people were still shaking their heads and sighing, while others were muttering in low voices. The dialects spoken by these sailors were all over the world, and Deng Yufu and Yuan Yeping did not hear them clearly.

The ship rounded the tip of the Shandong Peninsula that night, and the ships bound for the Wa Kingdom diverged south, and the ships bound for Goryeo were supposed to anchor underground, but in the twilight, two large ships sailed in the distance. So that they do not dare to reduce the speed of the boat at will. Be vigilant and keep your distance at any time.

Zhang Yong saw the incoming ship getting closer and closer, and he blurted out: "Liren, are these the two thunder and fire ships you said?" ”

Deng Yufu was surprised, he opened his mouth to ask, Yuan Yeping had already stretched out his foot and stepped on the surface of his foot, and gently swung his head back, signaling him to pay attention to Brother Jia Wen Meng who came over. Brother Jia Wen Meng saw the incoming ship getting closer and closer, his stunned mouth couldn't close, and he stammered and asked, "Are these the two sea Shenzhou built by His Majesty the Divine Sect?" ”

Zhang Yong didn't bother to answer. He had recovered from the vomiting at this time, and seeing that Zhao Xing had been holding the delicate cylinder, he couldn't help but reach out and take it, and immediately let out an earth-shattering shout when he raised it in front of him like Zhao Xing did.

This is not the Divine Sect Giant Boat. The Divine Sect's giant ship sailed once. There has been no record of it since. In modern times, the Japanese salvaged a Song ship that sank near the Sea of Japan for research. It was found that the Song ships were all stacked on top of each other, and this structure of the ship was also the reason why hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops were swallowed up in the Sea of Japan by the waves. Afterward. Based on this, the Japanese speculated that the hastily built Shenzong giant ship probably also adopted this structure, and that it was a "disposable ship" that could only sail once, and the hull of the ship disintegrated immediately.

The Japanese may have gone too far, because they said that the Mongolian man-made ship was a Song ship, although it was also the place where the captured Song shipwrights were made, but the two are not the same...... However, Zhao Xing is not an archaeological expert, he has no intention of studying the difference between the two, and he is very happy to make the Jurchens misunderstand.

"Yes, yes", Zhao Xing agreed: "This escort is of great significance, so we specially transferred these two giant ships from the south, if this escort is successful, I hope that in the future, you can not be afraid of the Liao people, often come and go, and sell horses for my Great Song Dynasty." ”

Zhao Xing said very kindly, and the Jurchen man rolled his eyes. He was so shocked by the two giant boats in front of him that he couldn't say anything sarcastic for a while.

The wind on the sea is relatively strong, and the sea is already a little cold in October, Deng Yufu found that the crew took out a small silver pot from their arms from time to time, raised it to their mouths and took two sips, he was a little curious, and wanted to take it from the hands of the crew, but saw Zhao Xing also took out a flat small silver pot from his arms, he unscrewed the cap, poured the white liquid in the pot on the bottle cap, poured a bottle cap and drank it in one gulp. As he moved, a faint aroma of wine wafted in the wind, Deng Yufu sniffed, and Zhao Xing poured another bottle cap and handed it to him.

"What a spicy wine!" Deng Yufu drank it in one gulp, only to feel a warm current surging in his stomach. At this time, a sailor ran onto the deck with a basket, and when he passed by Deng Yufu and Zhang Yong, he stuffed a small silver kettle into each of them.

Knowing the purpose of this wine jug, the two quickly unscrewed the cap of the bottle and drank a few sips of spicy wine to keep out the cold.

"Anything else? Anything else? ”

Zhao Xing stretched out his hand: "Ten taels of gold!" ”

The Jurchen smacked his lips, took out a bag of golden sand from his arms, threw it to Zhao Xing, and said boldly: "You weigh it, it will only be more, not less." ”

Zhao Xing actually threw the bag of golden sand to the sailor, and ordered: "A priori, weigh enough for ten taels, wrap up the rest, and return it to this man." ”

The Jurchen took a pot of wine from the sailor's hand, tilted his neck and went down half a pot, smacked his mouth, took the extra golden sand returned by the sailor, and checked it with his hand, and said curiously: "You really only keep ten taels...... You say that you are a calculating person who is greedy for money, but you are not like a person who takes advantage of others. Odd! How can Da Song have such a strange officer as you. ”

Zhao Xing ignored him, he shouted at the sailors on the mast: "Light the military flag, call the signal, let the other party slowly lean over, and quickly release the spiral ladder." ”

The size of the ship is very large, and Zhao Xing's is a fifty-ton fast sailing ship. The incoming ship is a large ship of 500 tons, and the sides of the two ships are very different, after the rope ladder is thrown over. Zhao Xing asked Zhang Yong: "I'm going to transfer ships, how are you?" ”

"Don't, don't, there is no bottom in this sea, if you fall, when will it sink to the end, I won't turn the boat. It's a good boat." Zhang Yong shouted tightly: "Don't go, you know, our family doesn't understand the navy, I can't stand on my feet now, you can't leave me alone on the boat." ”

Zhao Xing thought for a while and gave up: "Okay, let their ship come over with ten fighters and five crossbowmen." ”

The order was given at one time, among the five small boats where Zhao Xing was. A miniature fast boat and a medium-sized fast sailing boat were separated and sailed to the end of the fleet, while the two giant boats took Zhao Xing's ship and the remaining two large and small boats, which lit up. The lead is heading into the Bohai Bay.

Arrived near the modern Dadonggou. The Goryeo ship turned to the east, and a number of small utility ships escorted the Goryeo ship to Goryeo. Then Zhao Xing ordered the anchor. At sunset, the boat sailed out of Dadonggou and leaned towards the vicinity of the Suguan (Dalian).

"Although you give me wine, I still invite you to go ashore," Jia Wen Mengge said fiercely.

Zhao Xing smiled and asked, "Is the wine good?" ”

Brother Jia Wen Meng licked his lips and replied, "It's delicious!" ”

Zhao Xing stomped his feet and said, "There are five hundred jars of such wine hidden in the cabin under my feet, each jar of wine is fifty catties, how many horses do you think one jar can be exchanged for?" I want stallions, and I can't fool me with those geldings. ”

Brother Jia Wen Meng's eyes rolled: "Two altars for a horse." ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "This is a strong liquor, and it takes fifty catties of grain to make one catty of such a spirit." 500 catties of grain, how can I change it for a horse? My jar contains a hundred pounds...... Forget it, I won't talk to you, I'll send someone ashore to find someone who is willing to talk to me. ”

Brother Jia Wen Meng grabbed Zhao Xing's shoulders and said anxiously: "One altar for one horse, it can't be more, you have five hundred altars, I will give you five hundred war horses, do you pull the ground away at one time, it is not a stone." ”

Zhao Xing paddled the utility boats surrounding the outside with his hand, and replied: "The ballast of these ships is all water and stones, and they are all here to load horses." ”

Brother Jia Wen Meng tightened his fingers, pinched Zhao Xing's shoulder vigorously, and said: "It's late autumn now, it's about to snow in Liaodong, who will drive hundreds of horses to the beach, if you find someone else, you can get five hundred horses at most, and it is impossible to have more." ”

Zhao Xing was still smiling, he suddenly grabbed Brother Jia Wen Meng's wrist, and twisted his arm slightly, Brother Jia Wen Meng felt a sharp pain in the joints in his hands, and his body was only half twisted with the joints, and he had to let go of the action of pinching Zhao Xing. Then, without waiting for him to react, Zhao Xing's hand was gently sent out, he staggered back a few steps, and the god made the ghost sit down to the ground.

Zhao Xing said with a gentle smile as if nothing had happened: "I told you earlier, I learned the means of killing, not the kind of martial arts (dance) skills, you should be glad that the sun is very warm today, and I didn't kill people at all." ”

Brother Jia Wen Meng sat down on the ground, and thought about it for a long time, he couldn't even remember how he sat down, so he felt that the other party put it on his hand, and the joints of the wrist twisted, followed by the pain like a struggle, how did all this happen, Brother Jia Wen Meng actually patronized and bargained with the other party, and didn't pay attention. But after thinking for a while, he suddenly figured it out, and the cold sweat on his body came down.

It wasn't until this moment that he knew how lucky he was, just now the other party only moved one hand, and Brother Meng, who was proficient in wrestling, knew that if the other party knocked under his feet after that, he would have to face down and fall; If he pulls him into his arms and strikes his other shoulder sideways, then the shoulder will be dislocated; If the other party has a knife in his other hand, as long as he holds his hand that has been twisted off the joint, he will gently pull it, and his chest will hit the knife......

The officer in front of him was exactly what he said, he was clearly proficient in the art of killing.

There were similar techniques for the Jurchens, who they learned from the Bohai people, and later incorporated this technique into their wrestling moves...... But they didn't know that the Bohai people learned from the Tang people. This technique of twisting the joints is called "Tang hand" by the Bohai people.

The people of the Song Dynasty said that the Jurchen people "whose real name is Zhu Lizhen, and the Fan language is falsely called Jurchen". It can be seen that Zhu Li is really a Han name. In order to avoid Liao Xingzong Yelu Zhen, he changed his name to female straight and also wrote female hostage.

In the first year of Liao Tianxian (926), Taizu Yelu Abaoji destroyed the Bohai Sea, and some Jurchens moved south with the Bohai people. Incorporated into the Liao nationality, called "mature Nuzhen"; The Jurchens who stayed in their hometown were not naturalized in Liao. It is called "giving birth to a Jurchen". It has been 20 years since the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchen became stronger, and Aguta rebelled against the Liao in 1068 and gradually began to establish the state.

The "mature Jurchen" compiled into the Liao nationality is also called "Hesu Pavilion", also known as Hosu Pavilion and Hesu Gon, which means "fence" in Jurchen language. Brother Jia Wen Meng belonged to the Jurchen of the Suguan Pavilion and often traded with the Great Song Dynasty.

In the next trip, Brother Jia Wen Meng was very well-behaved. Just sitting on the boat and watching the view. Until the fleet sailed into the port of Hosuguan, which is modern Dalian. Brother Meng's brother came up on the boat, at this time Brother Meng's arrogance had disappeared, he honestly negotiated the price with Zhao Xing, and after negotiating the price, he jumped on his brother's boat, and did not take the wine, so he leaned to the shore.

Zhao Xingdi's ship did not enter the port, this was Zhang Yong's suggestion, he thought that his safety in a dangerous place was the first thing. However, Zhang Yong didn't understand why Brother Meng didn't take the goods after talking about the price, and ran directly to the shore, he sighed: "This Jurchen is really honest!" ”

Zhao Xing looked at the shadow of the ship in the distance. Answer: "That's because I didn't take a penny more of his golden sand just now." So he believed in my credibility and went to the shore to prepare the war horse first. A good reputation is low cost. Isn't it? ”

Zhang Yong shook his head: "How could you buy a horse from the Jurchens?" Those Jurchen horses are not as tall and good at running as your horses, how big are the horses, a small boat can't hold many horses, and they have worked hard to pull them back, how much can they be sold for? ”

Zhao Xing snapped his fingers and gave Zhang Yong an account: "A war horse can be sold for a hundred guan in Dengzhou, a small boat can hold ten horses, it only took three days for us to go back and forth, and from here to Dengzhou, you can go back and forth a day, and these small boats can earn a thousand guan if they transport ten horses a day." You can make a thousand dollars a day, and what business is more valuable than that? ”

Deng Yufu added next to him: "There is also Jinsha, say good, a jar of wine for a war horse, ten taels of Jinsha, our boat can also buy a batch of animal skins in the local area, calculate it, this trip will not be a loss." It seems that in the future, the utility ship escort is indeed profitable, let's build more boats, leave people, do you still use the quota effectively, my family also has three boats. ”

"There is no limit to the utility of generals", Zhang Yong has already understood: "This equivalent is self-prepared weapons and war horse equipment, which is only a name in the army. Very good, why do you say my brain is so dead, why haven't I thought about it in the past six months, how much money I have made less! ”

"Share the spoils", Zhao Xingle said hehehe: "I'm afraid that ships that have not been trained in belligerence will not dare to come here, my ship will bring up to ten escorts at a time, too much - there are more escort ships than merchant ships, don't people laugh at it?" Let's make a charter, assign how each family will go out of the ship, and how will the civil utility be used? ”

A few people were talking, those utility boats were coming into the port one by one, and they would be paid by the Jiawen brothers to purchase the goods they needed at the dock, and the payment was finally deducted from the price of the wine given to Zhao Xing.

After a while, all the utility ships entered the port, and only Zhao Xing's seven ships remained on the sea. The ships did not dare to drop anchor, so they circled around outside the harbor. Take the opportunity to practice command skills such as turning, grouping, and plating.

At dawn, a small boat sailed out of the port and sent Zhao Xing an account book, which was the value of the goods purchased by the utility ships. The ship stopped at the Jinzhou wharf for three days, and after the equivalent ship filled all the goods, it began to sail out of the port one by one, and they would sail towards the Dengzhou wharf, and the more than 100 war horses that could not be loaded were hired by the Jiawen brothers to hire several large wooden boats and carry them to Dengzhou together.

This time, the Jiawen brothers brought more than 100 people, and after they emptied the wine in Zhao Xing's original ship, several people stayed on Zhao Xing's boat, intending to go to Dengzhou together. They had already received a batch of liquor at the dock in advance, and this time they planned to take advantage of the armed escort to make another trip to Dengzhou by sea and land. It just so happened that Zhao Xing hired their merchant ships to transport horses, so that they could make double their profits by loading goods on the way back.

As hostages, the Jiawen brothers boarded Zhao Xing's boat with great awareness. But Deng Yufu looked at the boat stuffed with Jurchens, and was still a little worried: "Sign the judgment, this group of people is crammed into every corner of the boat, it doesn't look like an ordinary fisherman, wouldn't our boat let him see it......"

Zhao Xing smiled very coldly: "It's okay, even if this kind of small sea boat is taken away, I will use this boat to hit and sink it." ”

When Zhao Xing said this, he did not avoid the Jiawen brothers behind him. Deng Yufu compared the size of the two boats and agreed: "That's it." ”

The Jia Wen brothers had dark faces and did not refute.

The fleet anchored again, this time Zhao Xing consciously led his fleet to escort the entire fleet in the strait, those fast boats relied on their speed, and even passed quickly against the sea, and when they encountered a small boat of Liao, they simply sank it, and the big boat was forcibly boarded and checked. After a while, they captured a large number of small and medium-sized fishing boats under various names.

Brother Jiawen couldn't look at it, and asked in a straight voice: "My lord, why did you unload the rudder of those Liao small boats and tie them to the back of your own boat?" ”

Zhao Xing made a businesslike face and replied: "They evade taxes, and I will punish them according to the law." ”

The eldest of the Jiawen brothers was very calm, he just stared at Zhao Xing thoughtfully, and his younger brother Meng couldn't hold back and shouted: "My lord, but this is the sea area of Liao." When can the official ships of the Song State go to the waters of Liao to check taxes? ”

"Just now", Zhao Xing took out the silver wine jug, took a sip of spirits, and replied: "From the moment my boat sailed into this sea, I am here, and the rules of this sea are set by me, and I am the master of this sea!" ”

Before the two Jurchens had time to refute, Deng Yufu had already shouted in advance: "Sign the judgment, don't you dare to say that, don't dare to use the word protagonist indiscriminately, this word is too obscene." ”

What, Zhao Xing heard this statement for the first time.